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Definition of Spartinas
1. spartina [n] - See also: spartina
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spartinas
Literary usage of Spartinas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Book of Grasses: An Illustrated Guide to the Common Grasses, and the by Mary Francis Baker (1912)
"THE spartinas FOX-GRASS, CREEK SEDGE, CORD-GRASS, AND SALT REED-GRASS " By a ...
spartinas are lovers of strong salt breezes, and with Marram Grass and ..."
2. Transactions of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society.: Horticultural Hall by Massachusetts Horticultural Society, W.D. Ticknor & Co, James Englebert Teschemacher (1896)
"The characteristic grasses of the marshes are the spartinas. ... One of the
largest of these spartinas, growing where there is a daily flow of tide, ..."
3. Transactions by Massachusetts Horticultural Society (1896)
"The characteristic grasses of the marshes are the spartinas. ... One of the
largest of these spartinas, growing where there is a daily flow of tide, ..."
4. Entomological News and Proceedings of the Entomological Section of the by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Entomological Section (1912)
"Distribution : In southern New Jersey and at Wood's Hole I have taken this species
exclusively in salt marsh, where it is abundant on the short spartinas ..."
5. The American Botanist edited by Willard Nelson Clute (1911)
"... beauties—the grasses like wild rice or the spartinas for instance—are not
wanting, but of these the car window only permits of a view en masse. ..."
6. Companion to the Botanical Magazine: Being a Journal, Containing Such by Sir William Jackson Hooker (1836)
"... (which is still the prevailing species,) yet never mingling with the latter ;
nothing can be more unsociable than our two spartinas ; both eminently ..."
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